Subject: Re: bug#12626: Bug?: dd limited to <2G read size (2G-8K) on 64 bit machine?

From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:44:55 -0600

On 10/12/2012 09:40 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
> It is a bug if there is a check for short reads
> and that message doesn't get triggered.

Short reads are NOT an error in dd.  If you want to pretend that short
reads didn't happen, by re-reading until the buffer is full, then use
iflag=fullblock, as has already been mentioned to you earlier in this
thread.

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